I’m really confused. I want to learn how this website works. Would love to know more tips if you guys have any!

  • Sean@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The ‘instance’ is the ‘server’ that you made your account with.

    Your ‘instance’ is ‘lemmy.fmhy.ml’.

    A community is essentially a subreddit. As far as I know, there isn’t really an official term for it yet. I have been calling them ‘sublemmys’.

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      1 year ago

      sublemmy is probably not a great term, since it references lemmy rather than being a generic threadiverse term

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          1 year ago

          the term sublemmy confuses the issue because it makes it harder to understand the idea that an instance isn’t just lemmy, which is another big question people have about the fediverse: what’s kbin, how does it interact with lemmy, how do i see things on mastodon, etc